Chair Stephens requested that the term “golden duplex” be eliminated from the language used in staff recommendations and, instead, that an explanation of the term be provided. Secondly, regarding Waiver 3823, she asked that staff look further into the issue given that the owner and long-term resident still believes that the unit is her primary place of residence. The Executive Director said he will ask Legal staff to examine the regulation pertaining to principal place of residence and see if an exemption applies in this case.

(1)Committee assignments Chair Stephens mentioned that the current Committee List was provided for review and that, if Boardmembers wanted to revise their existing assignments, they were free to discuss this with the relevant committee members and inform her of any desired changes.

(2) Update on Rent Board Deputy Director Council report The Executive Director confirmed that the Rent Board Deputy Director position was approved by Council and that the requisition was also approved; he added that the announcement and recruitment process will begin soon.

(3) Update on procedure to select a replacement for the vacant seat on the Board The Executive Director confirmed that a press release was sent out and that there has been interest in the position. Staff Attorney Matt Brown then addressed the question of whether discussion of candidates could be done in Closed Session (raised by Commissioner Drake at the February 25th meeting) – he clarified that all voting and deliberation on candidates should be done at a meeting open to the public. The Chair and Vice-Chair reminded the public of the two deadlines related to the selection process: by noon on Wednesday, March 24th (in order to be reviewed by the Ad Hoc Search Committee); or up to 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 19th.

(5) Update on Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing Task Force recommendations. The Executive Director reminded the Board that the document before them is the current draft proposal being circulated by Public Health to various City commissions for review/input. He added that, once the City Manager’s office has reviewed the proposal and a more formal recommendation has been issued, that the report would likely come back to the Safe & Sustainable Housing Committee first, followed by a presentation to the full Board.

(6) Update on UC Berkeley Tenants’ Rights Week. Chair Stephens asked that this item be referred to staff as the Outreach Committee is not scheduled to meet prior to the event date. The Executive Director confirmed that staff will be participating and have already been in contact with the event organizers.

(8) Update on Recycling in Multi-Unit Buildings Commissioner Tregub asked that this item be carried over to the next meeting. After discussion, it was agreed that Tregub will first submit his report to the Executive Director who will decide if it needs to come before the full Board and/or be referred to the relevant committees. Townley said he’d like the Safe & Sustainable Housing Committee to be among those that review the report.

(5) Safe & Sustainable – Commissioner Townley said there will be a meeting before the next Board meeting but no date was mentioned.

(6) 4 x 4 City Council/RSB Housing Committee

(7) Ad Hoc Committee on filling vacant board member seat.

(8) Ad Hoc Committee on Waiver Process

(9) Future Special Meetings

c. Discussion of items for possible placement on future agenda. Status report on Ad Hoc Committee on Waivers work/request for Board input to be put on next agenda. Tregub’s update on Recycling in Multi-Unit Buildings may be placed on the agenda also.